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Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) - Baseline/First/Second/Third/Fourth Follow-Ups : Study Metadata Documentation

DesRoches, David; Robb, Alicia; Mulcahy, Timothy M. - 2010

intensity of research and development employment in the businesses’ primary industries. The KFS sought to create a panel that …

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Implementation of Lean Business Strategies : Evidence from Mexico

Hernández Palomino, Jorge; Espinoza, José de Jesús; … - 2014

This research, identifies lean management practices and elements. Despite widespread interest and little empirical evidence to support its position in improving organization performance, there is little understanding of lean business strategy key organizational factors. This research identifies...

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William - 2014

with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this … connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in …

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Do As Essay, Not As I Do? How Inflated List Prices of Unsold Essayer Homes Affect the Price Discovery Process

Agarwal, Sumit; Seiler, Michael J.; Siebert, Ralph - 2022

In the U.S. real estate market, around 30 percent of listed properties remain unsold. We examine whether unsold property listings exert externalities in the housing market. Our study builds on a comprehensive dataset that encompasses residential property listings in Orange County (California)...

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Diversity and the Case Against Specialized Clusters

Desrochers, Pierre; Sautet, Frederic; Hospers, Gert-Jan - 2015

The geographical concentration of related manufacturing and service firms is as old as economic development but it has drawn renewed attention in the last two decades in the wake of the spectacular growth of regional economies such as Silicon Valley (South San Francisco Bay), Route 128 (greater...

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Innovation and Corporate Growth in the Evolution of the Drug Industry

Bottazzi, Giulio; Pammolli, Fabio; Dosi, Giovanni; … - 2013

This work studies the processes of growth of the worlds top 150 pharmaceutical firms, on the grounds of an original database which also allows disaggregate analysis at the level of single therapeutic classes and chemical entities. Our findings show that the industry - whose long - term evolution...

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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship : How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William - 2009

Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...

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Risk Analysis of Accounting Information System Infrastructure

Mihalache, Arsenie Samoil - 2014

National economy and security are fully dependent on information technology and infrastructure. At the core of the information infrastructure society relies on, we have the Internet, a system designed initially as a scientists’ forum for unclassified research. The use of communication networks...

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Competition and Productivity in the UK and U.S. Tobacco Industries, 1879-1939

Zitzewitz, Eric - 2001

The UK and U.S. tobacco industries provide a particularly clean place to examine the impact of changes in market structure on firm conduct and productivity in a rapidly innovating industry. Both industries were competitive in the 1880s, and the U.S. appeared to have a slight lead resulting from...

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The Evolution and Structure of the Two Wheeler Industry in India

George, Sunila; Jha, Raghbendra; Nagarajan, Hari K. - 2011

This paper studies the evolution of the competitive structure of the two-wheeler industry in India. The evolution of the industry's competitive structure is traced using Kendall's index of Rank Concordance and the Evans-Karras test of convergence. The industry seems to be characterized by...

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